Indigenous activists take Olympic flag
The Canadian media was flustered last week when the massive (and expensive) Olympic flag was removed from its flag pole in front of Vancouver's City Hall - just as officials from the International Olympic Committee arrived in town. After all, who could oppose the Olympics? Well...
Native Warriors Claim Responsibility for Taking Olympic Flag
March 7, 2007
Coast Salish Territory [Vancouver, Canada]
In the early morning hours of Tuesday, March 6, 2007, we removed the Olympic Flag from its flag-pole at Vancouver City Hall. We pried open the access panel on the pole with a crowbar and, using a bolt-cutter, cut the metal cable/halyard inside, causing the flag to fall to the ground.
We claim this action in honour of Harriet Nahanee, our elder-warrior, who was given a death sentence by the BC courts for her courageous stand in defending Mother Earth.
We stand in solidarity with all those fighting against the destruction caused by the 2010 Winter Olympic Games.
No Olympics on Stolen Native Land!
Native Warrior Society
hah, nice one!
check out the commonwealth games crash in melbourne, 2006. [note the broken links, i think this should work.]
we called it the stolenwealth games & a small amount of quiet fun was had by all.
& solidarity to the crew from down under ;-)
Posted by: sparx | March 20, 2007 at 05:32 AM
"No Olympics on Stolen Native Land!"
That reminds me of the boycott campaign of the 2008 Beijing Olympics by organizations such as Students for a Free Tibet (SFT). SFT is using the Beijing Olympics to bring out human rights violations against Tibet and Tibetans and to call-out the appropriation of the Tibetan antelope.
More info here:
http://www.studentsforafreetibet.org/article.php?id=545
Posted by: Cynical | March 21, 2007 at 12:07 PM